2:11Moving on to item number three, public comment.
2:14The public is invited at this time to provide comment on any topic that relates to a matter over which this public body has supervision control or jurisdiction.
2:25No action, maybe take it on a matter raised during this period for public comment.
2:35I don't see anybody here, so how about moving on?
2:40Item number four, approval of the minutes.
2:43Has everyone had a chance to review the minutes.
2:53I move that we approve the minutes.
3:11Okay, item number five.
3:14For possible action, we're going to discuss and hopefully vote on action regarding direction from the library board from us on the process and tools for completing the library director's forthcoming annual performance evaluation.
3:33So I just want to say that the last couple of years that we've done it's been a little bit of a cluster.
3:56But I do want to say that when you do receive all of all of the information, um, the survey, her evaluation, and the stuff from Jeff, that you take everything on equal measure.
4:11If some of you haven't been here for a year, but you've been here long enough to be able to make um an educated, you know, evaluation.
4:21But I don't want to see if you're looking at um if you're looking at the employee evaluation, I don't want that health hold more weight than your own personal um evaluation, if that makes sense.
4:43Well, we have our interaction with Joy and the outcome of what things, you know, things that are going on, the outcome.
4:51So um, but anyway, I'm gonna let Joy explain it, and I'm actually very excited, and again, thank you, Jeff, for um for doing this for us.
5:00I think it's gonna go much better, and I think it's fairer on everybody.
5:06Well, thank you, Madam Chair.
5:07Um Joy Hull, library director for the record.
5:10Thank you, Jeff, for being here tonight and being willing to um walk us through this and help us streamline this.
5:17So I'm gonna give just a brief little bit of background.
5:20I've done a lot of research to figure out how other departments are doing this were unique and that we have a governing board.
5:27And so my first um thought was well, the other um department head in the city organization that has a similar experience or might have a similar experience as the city manager.
5:38So I did some historical research on that with Adam as well, and then um took a look at what we had done in the past with uh my predecessors.
5:49So that being said, um, what I've come up with is a suggested timeline of how we should go about this, and then how that information will be dispersed out in terms of the survey, in terms of my self-appraisal to you all, what information I will get back before we have the evaluation in person, and then um have that evaluation um and an oppress a brief opportunity for you all to discuss um your the objectives after the um survey results have been aggregated and after your individual evaluations have been aggregated, um, and that we will then or that evaluation will then be mostly or exclusively to discuss the objectives for my next um evaluation period.
6:42So for the 2025 or 2026-2027 evaluation period, if that makes sense.
6:48So that being said, what I'm suggesting is that um we we are obligated, you are obligated to perform to um perform an evaluation of me every year before July 1.
7:00Um human resources asked that we get it done before then.
7:04We're gonna stick with our um you know yearly coming in hot.
7:08So, but we'll get this done at the very beginning in our June meeting.
7:12So, my suggestion suggestion is that we continue with the 360 degree review that is sent out by has been sent out for the last few years to uh by human resources, and that will then be conducted to gather feedback from all of the library staff in the followings using the following steps.
7:30So by April 17th, the HR director will disperse the requisite survey to each library staff member, myself included.
7:39Um, by May 1st, each library staff member who wishes to participate must submit their response to human resources, and there's a way for them to respond back.
7:48They submitted it goes back to human resources.
7:50By May 8th, the HR director will aggregate all of that feedback from the 360 degree review survey responses and provide those results to each board member and the library director.
8:02So I'll be able to see those results as well.
8:06Um, what's happened in the past um few years is that I've not actually seen the results of the survey until the day of the evaluation.
8:13So I haven't had a lot of opportunity to look at that and answer any questions you might have before the evaluation day, because I'm getting it the day of.
8:22And I think that you all received a day of last year too, maybe or the year before.
8:27So there wasn't a lot of opportunity as we were going through it in the moment.
8:31So to eliminate that, um, we'll have all of that, and I will um also have myself appraisal to y'all by May 8th.
8:40That's my opportunity to talk about all of the things that have been done throughout the course of the year and um and reference my objectives from the previous year.
8:49That's sort of the I tell my unclassified staff that's the opportunity for them to do their own horn and also um show me how they met the objectives and I I give the objectives to help them help create a roadmap for them.
9:03Um I really think that's the purpose of objectives is to let so they know so that everyone knows going forward what their expectations are for the following year.
9:12Um and then uh the by on May 8th, the HL director will pre-fill out the unclassified job performance appraisal that was attached here, and I sent that um blank form so you all can see what that will look like coming from um Jeff.
9:29He's gonna fill out um a condensed list of the job duties.
9:35So this is a bit of a change from previous years because my predecessors, both Dr.
9:41Calgrove and um Director Lloyd, their uh evaluations on this same form were reduced to between five and seven.
9:52I think five for most years, um, job duties.
10:00When I began, um, I I was I was the one who sent out the form to y'all, and I listed all of my job duties.
10:05So there were like 16 choices.
10:07And so one thing, one way we could do this, and this is really where some conversation probably will need to be had, is how do we want to condense those?
10:17Do we want to condense them?
10:19Do we want to use the condensed versions that were used for my predecessors?
10:24Because those were likely those are very much the same every year.
10:28Um, but one thing um I think would be best is if Jeff condensed them if we choose to do that, so that there's no um perception of impropriety on my part, like I'm choosing the the job descriptions that I know I'm excelling at, you know.
10:44Um so does that do you guys have any thoughts on that?
10:51I like the condensed version.
10:52I think it can be hard to tackle such a large number of items.
10:59Um I'm sure that our HR director is more than capable of doing that, especially since we used to use a smaller version.
11:06So that makes sense to me.
11:08It sounds like I mean, having been through this five or six times, I think that's a great plan.
11:14And not having been through it at all.
11:16I'm willing to go with that, but I just am a little wondering um not being that familiar with all 16 or whatever duties they are.
11:25Um would the with the effort to condense them, try to hit something in each.
11:33Maybe there's different categories or something like that.
11:36How would it, how would it, is it a priority?
11:39Is it a how does how do we winnow?
11:42How's the winnowing process?
11:45I can't answer that specifically, but I can say that what my instincts tell me, yes, upon reading what was on my predecessors' evaluations is they pulled out the the job duties that best encapsulated the other job duties.
12:00That's what so that some of these job duties get very specific, right?
12:04But there are those that are very general as well.
12:07And so the most general ones were the ones that seem to have been pulled out from my perspective.
12:13But I I don't know how they did that before because it's been so far back.
12:17Um, but I'm guessing that's what was done.
12:19I think also um we have to keep in mind that because of the nature of the beast or her boss, but we you know we don't work there.
12:31Uh it's almost impossible to evaluate her listening all 16 because we don't see all 16.
12:38So I know her predecessors, what they did is they took basically the job duties that that we that we would see, you know, the running the leadership, the running of the library, the goals of the library, something that concrete that that's easier for us to see, if that if that helps at all.
13:01So moving on from that, Jeff will then um pre-fill out that portion of the form and distribute that um, and and he'll also fill out the objectives portion, because that was another thing that we'd run into in the past is that the objectives weren't listed on the form that you all had to fill out.
13:19So it was like what were the objectives from the previous year?
13:22Um, and so he will fill out the section of the form, and let me pull that form up so there's a little bit better point of reference.
13:39So there you'll see there are seven um different major job responsibilities.
13:43Um, like I said, we'd only had five in the past.
13:46So he'll fill out, he'll preload that part, and then the objectives he will also fill preload that part.
13:53Does that make sense?
13:56And so he'll send out that preloaded form to each of you to then complete with your uh individual responses and scores.
14:08Which is also because it's hard to all be on the same page when we're all guessing different objectives and different response.
14:17Um, and so then he'll have that sent out to you all.
14:21Uh, what day did I put here by May 8th, along with my self-appraisal?
14:24And I'll send that to each of you individually, um, so that there's no uh possibility of a quorum or anything like that.
14:31I'll send that out individually to each of you rather than um our like I do with the agenda where it's a list.
14:38Um and so then on May 22nd, each board member will individually and separately evaluate the library director and complete the pre-filled unclassified performance review form and send their individually completed version of the library director's unclassified employee performance appraisal form to the HR director.
15:00I'm sorry, I just I want to get this right because I like deadlines.
15:03So by May 8th, that would actually see that in our inbox, correct?
15:09By May 22nd, we had better send it by five o'clock on May 22nd.
15:14Send it back to Jeff, correct?
15:16You'll see that I tried to.
15:18So that gives us almost a couple of weeks to fill it out.
15:21Yeah, that was by design.
15:22So that there's two weeks gap.
15:23So there's two weeks for the survey, two weeks for the turnaround.
15:26There might be a little bit of shorter turnaround there, but um, so that uh everyone has time to look at my appraisal, look at because that'll remind you of some of the things that that you we've talked about in these meetings that you know you may not remember, and and it's so you don't have to go back and listen to every meeting um over the last year.
15:46And so then what'll happen is on June 5th, the um human resources director will aggregate the unclassified um employee and performance review form that you each submitted to him, and he'll he'll aggregate that aggregate that into a single version of the form, which will include a calculated average of the performance ratings, meaning this section here that says above expectations meets expectations.
16:16He'll calculate that and send that compiled unclassified employee performance review form to both you guys and me.
16:25So you'll see what that final product is, which will take into consideration each person's individual rankings, and then whittle that down.
16:37It's fairly, I would say basic mathematical equation, right?
16:40You're gonna say, okay, three out of five people said above expectations, so majority above expectations, and I'll get that ahead of time as well.
16:49And then at the actual June 11th board meeting, um the evaluation will be presented with a brief discussion of the final performance ratings and the objectives for the next um evaluation period, and then after the at that time after finalization, the board chair and the library director will sign the final form.
17:10And I will leave with that and post it as um late materials for the meeting.
17:20Or do we have to do that, Adam?
17:21Do I have to load the signed version as late materials if the unsigned version is loaded?
17:30And then one thing too, I forgot to add, Adam was just a um friendly reminder about the wait, the release form or um and what I forget notification.
17:39Um, Adam will send that to me.
17:40It's to let me know that I'm going to be evaluated in so many days.
17:45We have plenty of time.
17:51I don't know whether this is timely, but since it's on my mind, I'm just gonna ask.
17:55So the objectives we are going to have the objectives that were set last year, and we are using that as our um criteria for making our estimations.
18:07But we will we, but I'm I'm kind of here.
18:10We are not necessarily keeping those objectives.
18:13They may be stale, they may be achieved, they may no longer be.
18:16Will there be conversation among us, the board at the June 11th meeting as to what the objective should be, or is that how that goes?
18:27So we should come prepared with thinking about I think the objective should be such and such.
18:33Well, the thing is is that Jeff is going to aggregate each evaluation form that he received back from you.
18:39The expectation is that you each will list five objectives from your perspective.
18:45Typically, what happens is there's crossover.
18:48And so he'll be able to logically go, okay.
18:51Um, we think that Joy needs last year, one of the I think um ones that everyone had on their evaluation was to um provide more training or more opportunity for training based on that employee surveying staff expressing that they wanted that.
19:06Um, and so that was something I could go forth with and um and make efforts to deliver on.
19:13Um, but it was something that everyone pretty much had on their evaluation form.
19:17So that would have been an easy answer.
19:19Easy clarification issue.
19:22So usually that happens, but but then you can come and discuss, but Jeff's gonna send out to you that aggregated version and that final version that's gonna show you what the objectives were based on each VL's feedback that he was able to like glean what the objective would be.
19:40Because again, there usually is a common thread between most everyone's objectives.
19:47Right, but you wrote you also wrote on here with a brief discussion of the final performance rating for 2526 and objectives for the 2626.
19:57So I was just a little hazard.
19:58So that's I would I wouldn't quite sure about what that meant.
20:01Well, I think I wouldn't really hesitate to discuss it a little bit.
20:06It would, it's to give us the opportunity to just say, okay, you were above expectations here, yada yada.
20:12Here's this objective.
20:13Um, and this is that's an opportunity to say, and with that objective, what we would like you to see.
20:18I mean, you can get a little bit more specific, but like let's also talk about maybe the whys behind that, but also not to get too far into the weeds um with the objectives.
20:29Does that make sense?
20:31As because and when I say get into the weeds is um everyone kind of you know spitballing ideas for objectives.
20:38That spitballing process theoretically will have happened already with each of your individual um responses that Jeff will then aggregate.
20:46Does that make sense to you, Jeff?
20:48I I think uh this is um trustee Markle.
20:52Um I think it's a good idea to have those objectives aggregated, because I think that's a starting point to for, you know, it's it's hard in the past, it's it's hard to just come up with them out of the blue.
21:09Um, so if there are five objectives that are already in the performance evaluation as aggregated, then we can say, oh yeah, that's good, that's good.
21:20Or that's really not clear enough, or that's not enough.
21:24We can make those changes.
21:25But I think it's great to have this kind of starting point because yeah, it can get crazy.
21:33And I can say that back all the way back to 2018, I think.
21:39Um, my predecessor's evaluations went something like this.
21:43Thank you, Chair, for consolidating all of this.
21:47Does everyone agree?
21:49Um trustee, what do you think?
21:52I agree with you, Chair.
21:53Trustee, what do you think?
21:55I think you're doing a great job on this part.
22:00And then here you are.
22:02And the the completed document was already loaded as part of the agenda, and it was 15 minutes tops.
22:09Now, I'm not saying that we have to do that, but um what I am suggesting is that not take, you know, as long as we've had it to take, because I think it's just it's stressful and not just stressful for me, but I think everyone, I mean, we are sort of, you know, it's gotta be stressful for you guys sitting up there on high, right?
22:29Um, and so um that's really the purpose of this is to help streamline that.
22:38And thank you, Joy, for taking all of my um thoughts and talking to Jeff and getting this done because it it's it's stressful, it's it's just not fair on either either side.
22:49Well, and thank you.
22:50Many, many thanks to Jeff for being willing to take on a good bit of this work for us.
22:56Um but that will also helpfully uh not that this has ever been a real issue, but it it also it's never a bad thing to sort of um create a situation that will negate any sort of um perception of bias or anything like that.
23:12So if someone would like to make a motion, you can look back on your um staff report here, or let me get back to it.
23:24Okay, Vice Chair Lucas.
23:26Uh, I move to approve the annual performance evaluation process proposed by staff as presented.
23:33I second all in favor?
23:35I any opposed motion passes.
23:40Thank you for being to click on that.
23:42Well, anyways, okay.
23:47Um, before we move forward um to my report, does anyone have any questions about the financials?
23:54I am about to go into augmentations.
23:58So by our next um meeting, you should see um some uh reconciliation and numbers screwing up with the grant.
24:11I also did just um also reach out to go ed to um draw down what's remaining on the grant total so that you'll see that, like I said, it's growing up because it's funky right now.
24:26It says we've used 151%.
24:28Well, that's because we haven't drawn down the amount, the entire amount for the grant.
24:43Anything this is trustee spansel, and I'm assuming the 236% on uh page 21, the grant operating supplies is the same as part of that same thing.
25:00Operating supplies, um, just to give a background on that, everything associated with a grant outside of salary is operating supplies when it applies to grant monies.
25:07So it's never gonna get too specific.
25:09And when we've got multiple grants, you're not going to see it broke out by grant, individual grant.
25:14It's just gonna all be in this big pile here, and it's up to me to make sure and finance to make sure that that money is getting that we're dispersing it correctly for each grant, individual grant.
25:26But as happens right now, all of our other grants through the state, et cetera, are spent our monies from the friends, um, which is donation and the gift fund are spent.
25:36So what we're what that money that we're dealing with right now is will get um true up with the um drawdown from the governor's office of economic development.
25:49Any other questions about any of the other stuff?
25:59I am going to move on.
26:02So we did fill our senior library assistant position.
26:07Um, but in doing that, we opened our collection development librarian position.
26:13So that is open and um about to post.
26:19We were working on getting very specific with our supplemental questions to let people know specifically what we're looking for.
26:26However, that doesn't mean that people will answer those questions.
26:30A lot of times what we get is N-A-N-A on all of the questions, which if someone can't answer the question uh supplemental question, then they probably aren't gonna be qualified for the position.
26:40Um we also have um another senior library assistant position that opened.
26:45We had a staff member who was um had some things going on, we were aware of it, and ultimately um uh it doesn't she doesn't live in town and ultimately decided to um that she needs to be closer to home.
26:56So um we also have the library resources and system manager position open and posted, and then our part-time shelter position is open, and we're going to be um scheduling interviews for that position and the senior library position um this either tomorrow or early next week.
27:18The library resources and systems manager, we don't have a lot of um great candidates right now.
27:23We don't have a lot of applicants at all, actually.
27:26So um we'll go from there.
27:29I missed something that you said earlier.
27:31How does the collection development librarian how how does that go with the senior library assistant or did I just misunderstand I didn't question?
27:39No, the person that was in that position stepped down to senior library assistant.
27:45And then what was the thing about the questions with the NA?
27:48What questions ability to ask what's called supplemental questions with each job that we post.
27:58And so this would be in the application correct.
28:02And what's happened, what happens sometimes.
28:04We do that to try and communicate to applicants what it is that we're specifically looking for, and or um what that particular, for example, senior library assistant position is going to um be most expected to do.
28:19The collection development librarian positions kind of speaks for itself, but not all of our positions necessarily do that.
28:27Um, but we also want to be sure that we are um that we have someone who has a collection development experience.
28:34Because what happens is people will think, well, yes, I understand what how to develop a collection.
28:38I have my own library at home, and that's not what we're looking for.
28:43Um, but what happens is uh sometimes people don't fill out the questions, they just put an A.
28:49And if they put an A then they're not answering the questions that we need to have answered in order for us to consider them as an in for an interview.
28:58So this is in the screening process.
29:00And this is a new part of the screening process.
29:04It's something that we do, but I was use I brought it up to explain why the collection development librarian position is not posted yet, because we were being very mindful and deliberate about what we were going to ask.
29:16Um, and the person who that position just opened or just became available or unfilled on Friday.
29:25So that person, that's when the person moved themselves or to be a senior library assistant from the collection development librarian.
29:38For someone to step down?
29:48It's because we jinxed it.
29:50Yeah, not a course, but I'm just recalling that uh in past meetings that uh we have said, oh, we're you know, we're so close to being fully staffed.
30:00But as someone who sometimes deals with staffing myself, I understand how it is a constant bust that you're trying to catch up to, which is all to say.
30:08Thank you for that explanation.
30:10I think I understand.
30:11Obviously, you know, we don't get to know all the details, and that is all well and good and fine, but I understand better what is posted, what is not.
30:19So I know, and it's this is it's like a game of chess, truly.
30:23Um, or or whack-a-mole, really at this point.
30:27But I I'm confident we're gonna get there.
30:30Um that said, our Capital City Reads program is underway.
30:37Um, the music of bees is the um selection this year.
30:41It's fiction, and it's had we've had great response.
30:45Um we are, let's see, today is the ninth.
30:48It started on the first, and we have about I think 60 books left um out of 300.
30:56So that's pretty good, six days in.
30:58Um, so we're gonna try we're kind of gauging it at this point to see if we might need to buy some more.
31:03Um, that is fully funded by the friends.
31:06Um, if we have to buy more, we'll use those funds from our general fund book budget, but um, or another uh gift fund light item, but um uh it's people have so far got given really good response to it.
31:20And it's a nice story.
31:20I mean, it takes place in Hood River, Oregon, which if you've ever been there is gorgeous.
31:25And um, and it's about a person who's a beekeeper and and how disruptions to environment can change um an ecosystem in the broader sense broadest sense of the word.
31:37Um, and the community gathers together, and so it's a metaphor for how bees, the system of bees works together to make a honeycomb.
31:45And yeah, so it's it's really a good book.
31:47It's an easy read, I would say.
31:48You know, it's a nice, not too heavy.
31:51Um, and I I've so far it's been very popular.
31:54So come to the library and get a free book and pass it on or bring it back, and they're um in the very front of our new um or newish now uh circulation desk.
32:06Um so that said, we are there are two off-the-cloth shelf book club discussions that are going to be specifically about the Capital City Reads uh selection, and then we're doing some you know, be friendly um be friendly uh programming to coincide with that.
32:23Um and you can see here uh in parentheses are the different programs as they relate to the different things going on this month.
32:31So National Poetry Month, Capital City Reads, and the National Library Week, which is the third week in April.
32:37National Library Week, that is and we had a spelling beat today with kiddos, and we had three um attendees and eight people, and they were super cute pictures.
32:55So hopefully I I told um Haley, our programming outreach coordinator, hopefully winning a medal will encourage them to um uh be fearless competitors throughout life.
33:07Um so anyways, those are what we've got going on here, and we're still cruising along with the um the 60th anniversary events every month.
33:17Um, like I said, we're we're still in the we've got a really cool idea that we're gonna launch, but we've gotta get it nailed down a little bit more for the um the actual party that we're gonna have on the day of the actual anniversary on June 15th.
33:30And then um we did have our staff training day this last Monday.
33:35Steinman um had a very booked schedule this month.
33:40So he and I are still trying to figure out how we can best get him and Anya, his assistant to come out.
33:47Um hopefully that's gonna happen about two weeks.
33:49We won't be able to, you know, close the library again because we have our approved calendar for the year already set.
33:54But I think we can make it work that folks will be able to commit a block of time to meeting with him.
34:02Um, you know, together, depending on whomever's scheduled on desk and or not schedule on desk, myself and um Sarah and probably our other um managers will have more time off desk to be able to be there for that um think tank session.
34:16Um, and then he will begin drafting the final strategic plan.
34:20Um first and first draft of the final strategic plan.
34:25So that's where we're at with all of that.
34:27And that's the only um oh, that's not true.
34:31After I drafted this, our friends sign uh came.
34:36And so now we're trying to figure out how to hang it because it doesn't hang like the other one does.
34:41So um we've gotta we've gonna we're gonna have to do some creative some creative stuff to get it to hang from the the tiles.
34:48Um but it looks really cute.
34:50We have two of them.
34:51One's gonna go on the door that faces the foyer, and then one will go hang from the wall.
35:00I would have included a picture here had I had one when I drafted this.
35:04So does anyone have any questions about any of this stuff?
35:08Could we just touch on a little bit the strategic plan?
35:11Um so he comes back at some time that works for everybody in the next couple of weeks.
35:17He begins uh he and the assistant whose name I forgot.
35:22You're right, they begin putting together that material to start to do a rough draft.
35:28Can you give me a time or what does it look like then, or where does it go?
35:33Well, he's committed to having uh uh a first draft done.
35:37He's he's got a lot of them information from this from the um surveys already.
35:42He's already got probably 90% of it done.
35:45So this is gonna be the last and final push from the staff.
35:49And then um he'll plug in plug information in, then he will come here and discuss it with you all.
35:56And um, if changes need to be made, then he'll go forth and make those changes.
36:01Um, or you can at that time say we approve with this change.
36:06And then once that's completed, we're we're done for the next however many years till 2030.
36:13No, well, we have those intermediary.
36:16Right, but we are done f with the first draft, first year of the five-year plan.
36:22So we're done with, we'll have a comprehensive plan.
36:25It doesn't change I mean, we don't do a brand new plan every year.
36:31So would he be if we're doing your evaluation in June, I doubt that he would be coming in June.
36:39He would come in May, maybe I doubt that he's gonna be able to come in May.
36:43He'll probably have to come in July or somewhere thereafter.
36:47We can't make it work time wise otherwise.
36:49And so in the timeline, I'm just reiterating in my head that we are not concerned about it being that late.
36:57That'll be fine, that we won't be like running afoul of anything that says we've got to be.
37:02I already requested a waiver with the state because we were are behind.
37:10That was also my question.
37:11Uh as a newbie, uh, right, having gone through this process the first time now.
37:17So we are not expecting it to be May.
37:19We're expecting that it would probably be July.
37:25Because it's been really hard for us to match up because of a lot of things that have been going on with him having to move his whole office and the things that came with that.
37:33Um, and then also just trying to sync up our schedules.
37:36So it's, you know, we could fast track it um more than we have already, but um, because we had kind of had to because we were behind.
37:44But because we have a waiver from the state, um, we have some time.
37:52Yeah, you know, and I'm curious, kind of thinking as you were asking that or talking about that.
37:57Is it something that because it's going to be a large document?
38:02Um, if we were to get it with a regular agenda and then come to the meeting the next week, that may not provide us enough time to really analyze it to be able to give um meaningful feedback.
38:15Can we he it will probably be done way before July because we're just looking at him coming to us.
38:22But do we do we not give feedback till he quote presents it?
38:27I would like time to digest it.
38:30We we always do it that way.
38:32You get more time than a week beforehand.
38:35As soon as it's completed, oh good.
38:37I will send it out to each of you individually so that you can review it.
38:40And I expect there will be plenty of time for you to do that before we then come and have the discussion in July or whatever month it ends up falling, and maybe it will be.
38:49I mean, we could do it in June after my evaluation.
38:53Um there's no saying uh that we can't, but um, except the chair is letting me know no.
39:01Um, so um, yes, don't forget we also have elections and it's gonna be a long meeting.
39:07There's gonna be elections.
39:09Oh, correct in July.
39:10The elections are in July.
39:12Oh, are they oh okay?
39:13I just don't want us to be sitting here for five hours.
39:18I don't think anyone wants that, right?
39:21Yeah, what it what do we talk about board and vice chair or chair and vice chair every year in July.
39:26We elect um a new uh every year I look at you.
39:34So yes, you will be given a lot of time.
39:36Um we won't expect you to come and have that, you know, however many pages, 50 page report um in front of you for the first time and have a meaningful conversation about it.
39:52And it seems to me, this is trusty spansale that yes, we we know it's been delayed.
40:00Yes, we know the state knows that, and everything is above board in terms of the paperwork there.
40:02But if we've come this far and there have been, you know, the survey results as well as the previous strategic planning workshops, in my mind, I would like it to be as as good as it can be rather than as quick as it can be.
40:17Um, and I would imagine, although you know we only met the one time in this context that uh Dr.
40:22Steinem feels the same way as his you know signature is underneath this work.
40:28And then, of course, we'll at some point shortly thereafter, and it we'll pull out the so there's there's the technical report, which is the big report, but then we'll probably also pull out and make a more condensed version of that that's um a little bit more accessible and um user friendly for our users.
40:48And um what we've done in the past um is create uh pamphlets that people can have that condenses all of that down so it's you know one to two pages or a pamphlet, and that's something we can do.
41:00Um, and we could create that ourselves at the library and have it printed or maybe even printed ourselves.
41:06Um probably we'll have it printed so it's nice and shiny and glossy.
41:10Um but we can we can create that ourselves.
41:12We can do that graphic designing or infographic.
41:15That's really what it is, is an infographic.
41:17Um we could then make uh post on our Facebook along or on our website along with the lengthy technical report.
41:27Because a lot of people just aren't gonna go through all of that data.
41:43We appreciate that, Joy.
41:47So 6B, uh, trustee reports, announcements, requests for information.
42:00Well, it's gonna be okay.
42:03Um quiet meeting next time.
42:08So let's move on then to public comments.
42:11And once again, the public is invited at this time to provide comments on any topic that relates to a matter over which this body has supervision control jurisdiction.
42:22No action may be taken on a matter of race during this period for public comment.
42:28And again, I don't see anybody here, and we don't have a phone line, so how about we adjourn?
42:36Thank you everybody.